Upgrade Advice Requested

[KadenEckhart]

I want to either Upgrade or get a new CHEAP pc to play pc games.
Please tell me what i should upgrade or reccomend super cheap gaming cpu
Here are my specs

Moved from PC Gaming to GH
-ViRGE

 

[KadenEckhart]

 

[KadenEckhart]

Operating System
Windows XP Home Edition 32-bit SP3
CPU
Intel Pentium E2140 @ 1.60GHz 55 °C
Conroe 65nm Technology
RAM
2.00GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 332MHz (5-5-5-15)
Motherboard
Dell Inc. 0RY007 (Socket 775) 40 °C
Graphics
Default Monitor (1440x900@60Hz)
DELL SE198WFP (1440x900@60Hz)
Default Monitor (1440x900@60Hz)
Default Monitor (1440x900@60Hz)
1024MB NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT (ASUStek Computer Inc) 72 °C
Storage
232GB Seagate ST3250820AS (SATA) 47 °C
298GB Seagate STECH Simple Drive USB Device (USB (SATA))
Optical Drives
TSSTcorp CDRWDVD TS-H493B

 

[DominionSeraph]

You could look around for a 9600GT, which should be available for around $25 used. Your Dell should have a 300W PSU and a 9600GT worked with mine. That would be a huge improvement over what you have, but you'd still be looking at 2008 era games. (Though my X2 5200+ with a 9600GT would play Dead Space at 1600x1200 with 2xAA at a pretty solid 85FPS)

E: Looking at Passmark I see my X2 5200+ was significantly faster than your E2140. You need a new build. Go to General Hardware and fill out the sticky.
If you only have a few bucks, the above holds: a 9600GT is a LOT faster than a 9400GT and would open up a lot of games. (I play League on a 9600GT just fine) So if you can get one for cheap it's not a bad option. But unless you have an ATX case lying around and can find a 775 board for ultra-cheap that would allow for the overclocking of that CPU, I don't see much else that can be done.

 

[mfenn]

Go to General Hardware and fill out the sticky.

Yes please! It's hard to know what "CHEAP" means to you unless you give us a hard dollar amount.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Look for a cheap FM2+ board, and get the cheapest overclockable quad-core FM2 or FM2+ APU. AMD's big-core APUs are just the ticket for extreme budget gaming.

Granted, you WILL NOT be able to play the "newest" games at 1080P, with a rig like that. But that's what you have to put up with for extreme budget rigs.